C. Michael Kamps, a certified public accountant from Rockwall, earns his living as a mortgage broker. But, he says, “I’m prepared to drop everything and go to law school.”

For now though, Kamps gets his legal training from the school of hard knocks at the courthouse. A pro se litigant, Kamps received his most recent lesson when he filed faulty petitons with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which the court rejected, before filing his Aug. 2 motion for reconsideration, now pending.

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